[QUOTEAnd yes they have gone far right as far as social issues are concerned. And few, if any, of them have ever been particularly thrifty. They talk a bunch about tax and spend liberals, but they are the ones doing the spending. It's the paying the bills they have problems with.[/quote]

There is no longer room in the Republican party for a moderate. They have all been called RINOs and driven out of the party. There is only room for the far right fringe.

I would argue that the GOP does not only contains the extreme social conservatives but also extreme economic conservatives.